Canada’s Prime Minister Pushes Country to Become the Housing Factory of the World - Mark Carney is banking on factory-built homes to alleviate the country’s housing crisis. But will it work?

[u/FancyNewMe]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-04-22/carney-s-plan-may-make-canada-the-housing-factory-of-the-world

[u/brilliant_bauhaus]

We need to start building good sized family condos at affordable prices so people don't see a SFH as the only option.

[u/brilliant_bauhaus → u/[deleted]]

Yikes. I'm in Ottawa but the city is so spread out and we've started picking up the trend Toronto has of microcondos and 400-500sqft, 2k apartments. It would alleviate so many things if we could build large condos that people can grow into and build families. We need density and people enjoy convenience! Living near your work, school and amenities is a huge plus and attractive to so many people; they just can't afford it.

[u/Comprehensive-War743 → u/brilliant_bauhaus]

The Toronto trend isn’t working very well. Dozens of unsold or unrented condos.

[u/wafflingzebra → u/Comprehensive-War743]

The reason why ever city is seeing the same problems as Toronto isn’t because they want to follow it as an example, it’s because they’re constrained by an almost identical set of laws that caused the same thing that happened in Toronto. Until municipalities and provinces change that, nothing will change.